Dwight L. Moody Quotes
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
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Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'
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I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.
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It is too early to assess the policies of the new German government. I can only say that the crisis has shown that the monetary union is incomplete and that the weaknesses need to be remedied. Germany helps the euro best by further strengthening its competitiveness and promoting growth.
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I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer's lobby.
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We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.
